Petition calling for the immediate withdrawal of all French troops from Central African Republic has started amid more allegations soldiers working as UN peacekeepers paid young African girls for sex while fresh accusations emerge that UN peacekeepers abused women and girls in Congo.

"I have been keeping track of UN peacekeepers crimes since 2012," filmmaker Samantha Asumadu, who started the petition, told Sputnik.

"This one was one too many and the lack of interest by mainstream press compelled me to do at least something with our small means," Asumadu said.

A recent report by the AIDS-Free World's Code Blue stated that UN and French troops based in Central African Republic (CAR) had abused at least 98 girls.

"Saturday, March 27, 2016, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and a delegation from MINUSCA, the UN's peacekeeping mission in CAR, met with local leaders and victims who reported that troops from France and Gabon have sexually abused several girls in their province," a press release by Code Blue states.

The three survivors told a MINUSCA human rights officer that they had been tied up and undressed inside a camp by a military commander from the Sangaris force — the French military in CAR — and made to have sex with a dog.

One survivor said she was called "the Sangaris' dog" by members of her community. The incident took place in 2014, according to the Code Blue campaign which also revealed that a mother of a 16-year-old girl told local police that a Congolese UN peacekeeper had raped her daughter in a hotel room on 28 March, 2016.

"When police questioned the accused in the presence of his UN military commander, the soldier confirmed that he 'had sexual intercourse' with the victim several times, and paid her between 2000 and 3000 Central African Francs."

Following the recent revelations of more abuse of young girls by UN peacekeepers, an urgent crisis meeting was called by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff Edmond Mulet on March 29, according to the Code Blue campaign.

The crimes discussed included allegations in 2013, 2014 and 2015, that "may been perpetrated by a combination of non-UN and UN" peacekeeping personnel, sources say.

Thankful for the work of @AIDS_Free_World who continue to expose the #UN's shameful handling of sexual violence by peacekeepers in #CAR

Claims French troops sexually abused young children in exchange for food emerged in 2014.

New Allegations

And fresh cases of sexual abuse have just emerged in Congo. The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says it had received new allegations of sexual abuse involving five Tanzanian peacekeepers and one South African contingent who had sexually abused and exploited five women and six girls, leaving them all pregnant.

The UN has already received widespread condemnation from human rights groups and children's charities for failing to respond quickly enough and take the correct actions surrounding the allegations of sexual abuse.

"We demand accountability. And we demand it now!" the petition, which has 4,186 signatures states.

"We are also demanding the immediate removal of French troops from CAR. France is a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Their removal from CAR would be a strong indication that this time finally the UN intend to take the abuses of African children by supposed peacekeepers seriously," filmmaker Samantha Asumadu told Sputnik.

"Hence why we have started the twitter hashtag #PredatoryPeacekeepers."

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